The clause is peculiar, in that it appears to have been drafted without the dimmest understanding of the way in which close companies or partnerships work.
We take the dimmest possible view of any breach of any animal health and welfare regulations, and the courts would take a similar view.
Surely even the dimmest member of a trade union would not be so dim that he could not understand this simple amendment?
No one, surely, who knows the facts, and very few who have even the dimmest appreciation of them.
Even the dimmest pupil in the class occasionally gets the sum right, but that is not a case for changing the principles of mathematics.
No one but the most hardened or the dimmest of criminals would commit a crime if he thought he was on camera.
Nobody wins any marks for guessing what it was: the dimmest child at a special school would have guessed it years ago.
The doctrine of common employement has been a part of the law of almost all nations from the dimmest periods.